What Are Your Thoughts On Players Using Anal Beads To Win Chess Games

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Players get salty when you beat them it's so funny. Guys reporting you for cheating or general insults. This Neiman story been in the news and he counter sued. But it's a story that the general chess public is waiting on the outcome.

Also there's a bit of trolling him and making fun of him. With the lawsuit speaks for itself quote.
 
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I'm a casual chess enjoyer and I like watching events that Maurice Ashley hosts, so I tuned into the Sinquefield cup last year to see if he was announcing it. I ended up watching/following the whole tournament. Here's my summary of what ACTUALLY happened as best as I remember:

The Sinquefield cup is an annual invite-only chess tournament for the strongest chess players. One player, Richard Rapport withdrew from the tournament and was replaced by a 19 year old grandmaster named Hans Niemann.

When Hans ended up playing Magnus (the world champion), he defeated him with the black pieces. Black is considered to have a disadvantage because white goes first, so just getting a draw as black is okay, and a win is great. Magnus hadn't lost as white in quite some time (hes the strongest player in the world so it makes sense), so this made the win particularly surprising.

Magnus withdrew from the tournament without saying anything which set the chess world ablaze. Everyone assumed it was because Magnus felt Hans cheated (which Magnus later confirmed). The streamers jumped on this controversey for the views, and during one of the popular streamer's broadcast, a random viewer said he probably used anal beads to cheat.

Thats it. Thats how the anal beads story came about. He wasn't even cheating in the end. Magnus played poorly. All the best players in the world say so, and Hans didn't play particularly amazing (he just capitalized on the opportunity). All the articles, all the press coverage, Elon Musk mentioning it, all stems from one random person on the internet making a cac joke.

I think you need to follow hikaru on his YouTube about this..the major thing that chess.com who I think were involved somehow.. cause Hans was suing hikaru, magnus and them for 100 million. Which I think got dumped.

The major thing is if you do an analysis of Hans Neiman games and accuracy of moves. And do analysis of other people who have been historically strong you find Hans has some games where it's really really high in percentages. Unnaturally high. Plus he has said he did cheat in the past at online games so I wouldn't put it past him.

 

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Players get salty when you beat them it's so funny. Guys reporting you for cheating or general insults. This Neiman story been in the news and he counter sued. But it's a story that the general chess public is waiting on the outcome.

Also there's a bit of trolling him and making fun of him. With the lawsuit speaks for itself quote.
see the crazy thing about this story to me isnt the veracity but rather how someone randomly "suggested" this anal beads scheme as the first thing he could think of if he would cheat in chess. They didnt just accuse him, they said they KNOW thats how he did it with authority which means they must have done it themselves

to me this is a whole smear on the chess community and trust me it stinks to high hell! :scust:
 

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Wait wait. If true. How did he get caught??

Was he in a highly ranked match and his beads malfunctioned causing him to

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That part, I think they said Carlsen had maybe one perfect game of his career? And Nieman had 5 in a short time frame. They basically statistically proved he was cheating, but not physically proved.

Also if you watch the video above, he was playing the statistical best moves, but they would be very unnatural, like a little king move in a middle game.

The major thing is if you do an analysis of Hans Neiman games and accuracy of moves. And do analysis of other people who have been historically strong you find Hans has some games where it's really really high in percentages. Unnaturally high. Plus he has said he did cheat in the past at online games so I wouldn't put it past him.
 

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That part, I think they said Carlsen had maybe one perfect game of his career? And Nieman had 5 in a short time frame. They basically statistically proved he was cheating, but not physically proved.

Also if you watch the video above, he was playing the statistical best moves, but they would be very unnatural, like a little king move in a middle game.

Yeah I was asking what king B7 move was in the above video and I think the idea is to hold on to the bishop and get the king tucked away before any attack. Where the bishop is sitting, only the queen is holding onto it. The queen can be kicked by the rook, when it relocates can be kicked by the pawns.

Hans situation is that he was playing at a level higher than even fisher for five tournaments in a row or something. And there's a big disparity between the super GM and the regular ones. If you see how hikaru and them dispatch of these guys on the speed runs with disrespectful openings, you can see it. I don't know if Hans cheated but the analysis doesn't look good. And now going forward he's gonna be under scrutiny to maintain the same level of play.
Target is on his back. He's basically to me the shacarri Richardson of chess. Young upstart who a lot is expected now that they think they will be a fast riser. And the worlds best are basically chuckling at him the way Fraser pryce did at that famous picture
 
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